Re: Fwd: Krimikantha
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• May 17, 2000
Sri: Dear Sri LAkshmi Naraishman Srinivas, Very good answer and authenticative. You wrote: Q3. Were the Cholas or a specific Chola pursue a policy of intolerance towards Srivaishnavam? The answer is a resounding yes, at least to the second question. For various reasons, Hari Rao thinks the contemporary king is Kulottunga I and since his inscriptions involving grants are recorded in the Srirangam temple, he was not intolerant and ergo, the entire Srivaishnava tradition of persecution against their darsana is a fabrication. This is quite absurd as the whole thing hinges on some dating arrived at from conventional sources. If one were to assume a date 50 years later than hitherto accepted, one would arrive at Kulottunga II as the contemporary king. This king's record does show that he was a saiva partisan and quite possibly an anti Vaishnava bigot. The evidence comes from Chidambaram where it is well known that Govindaraja swamy sannidhi was right there by the Siva shrine. (cf Periya tirumozi 3.2.1 thru 3.2.10 and perumAL tirumozi 10.1 thru 10.11). It is equally well known that a famous court poet (oTTakUttar) boasted that the king he served had "thrown an image of Vishnu in to the sea at Chidambaram". He makes the claim three times once each in his KulOttungaccOLan ulA, rAjarAjaccOlan ulA and takkayAkapparaNi. These are cited in B. Natarajan, The city of the cosmic dance, New Delhi, 1974. Hope this helps, LS ====== This also is referred to by the "MaRaimalai adigaLaar" in his works very explicitly and is referred to by Sri KrishnaPremi in his upanyasam series on Ramanuja. Regards Narayana Narayana adiyEn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get paid for the stuff you know! Get answers for the stuff you donÂ’t. And get $10 to spend on the site! http://click.egroups.com/1/2200/4/_/716111/_/958567629/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@eGroups.com Visit http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/ for more information
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